Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to another of the members, Guy Quinlan '60, Smith promised him that he would not oppose the charter if the club supported him for election last spring. Quinlan also said that Smith reconfirmed the pledge to Morton Korn '57, the Eisenhower Club's president for 1956-57.
Winning Party. In Willimantic, Conn., a new election was ordered by the state labor relations board after the losing union protested that on election eve the firm laid on a beer party for all employees.
The Honduran election brought power at last to Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales, who won an election three years ago but was counted out by back-country political bosses. During the interval, while Honduras was ruled by dictatorship and junta, Villeda went off to Washington as ambassador, gradually moderated...
For Haiti, the peaceful election ended a hectic ten months of intermittent rioting and revolt during which six governments tumbled and two election attempts failed. Mild-mannered Dr. François Duvalier swept the countryside, rolled over the city majorities won by Planter Louis Déjoie, and emerged with...
This separation of the Houses and the Council is unfortunate. Where Council representatives are responsible to no organized group, election to that body has degenerated into a mere popularity poll. Unless representatives are somewhat coerced by organizational pressure, few will burden themselevs by making a concentrated effort to find out...